Skeletons in the Defense Appropriations Bill

Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), last seen punching a Capitol police officer, has an interesting idea of what material should be contained in a defense appropriations bill (from Special Report):

Representative Cynthia McKinney is once again raising questions about her behavior after she attached dozens of autopsy photos from Colombia to a House Armed Services Committee report on the defense authorization bill.

The Georgia Democrat inserted 24 pictures of the decaying remains of Jaime Gomez, chief of staff to a Colombian politician, who authorities say may or may not have been murdered last month. Along with the photos, McKinney writes that terrorist threats have been exploited to increase funding for "weapons of war, while denying the human suffering and needs that face us."

A spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert says, "It's weird," adding, "Our focus should be on winning the War on Terror, rather than printing up 30 pages of skeletal remains." No explanation from McKinney's office on why the photos were included.

Gateway Pundit did a little research and discovered some other items inserted into the bill by Rep. McKinney:

Sure enough... Representative McKinney (D-GA) inserted several pages to the report including information on:

* Can Handwash Stop Bird Flu? (Page 612)
* Operation Dragon- The assassination plot tageting Bernice Celeyta Alayon (page 621)
* Halliburton & Detention Camps from New America Media (Page 662)
* Halliburton's Immigrant Detention Centers from Common Dreams (Page 664)
* And, news on coca cultivation (page 618)

But, the most interesting additions to this House Armed Services Report were the dozens of pictures of the skeletal remains of Columbian Jaime Gomez.

Maybe she was too lazy to take the stuff to the trash, and just got rid of it by sticking in the nearest bill.